Sweet Hell on Fire Quotes

“You may converse. You may have a conversation, but you can’t conversate because it’s not a goddamn word.”
― Sara Lunsford, Sweet Hell on Fire: A Memoir of the Prison I Worked In and the Prison I Lived In

“It’s also said that a society’s prison system is how best to measure their civilization. If that’s so, we’re fucked.”
― Sara Lunsford, Sweet Hell on Fire: A Memoir of the Prison I Worked In and the Prison I Lived In

“All of the pressure we’re under, the body adjusts. It’s when the body realizes it doesn’t have to function under that kind of stress that it says “fuck you” and promptly starts shutting down.”
― Sara Lunsford, Sweet Hell on Fire: A Memoir of the Prison I Worked In and the Prison I Lived In

“They say that during the first year of corrections, an officer is no good for The Job. After that year, they’re no good for anything else.”
― Sara Lunsford, Sweet Hell on Fire: A Memoir of the Prison I Worked In and the Prison I Lived In